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Obama signals new focus on climate change, but will there be any realistic action or coordination with other countries?
The Arctic Council has an action group to address and reduce emissions, in an effort to halt climate change.
Changing climate is to blame for the whales that were trapped, according to locals.
Andean glaciers melting at ‘unprecedented’ rates. According to a study, the glaciers are melting at the fastest rates in 300 years.
6 Ways Climate Change Will Affect You
“Fantastic” New Flying Frog Found—Has Flappy Forearms
Amphibians are in decline, and although the causes have not yet been determined, changing climate is one theory.
Use of Amphibians as Indicators of Ecosystem Restoration Success. Literally permeable, amphibians are very sensitive to any changes in the environment. We have not seen frogs in well over a year, and it was at least a year ago since we heard the songs of frogs.
Himalayas: Water Towers of Asia
I apologize for the very brief post this morning. I am under the weather (no pun intended) and will not be able to stay for very long, because I am not feeling well. I do hope that everyone has a great day. Please feel free to speak about any topic!
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Good morning everyone. I have not been feeling well, so I have not read the Lake lately, but just now I see Jane’s post about Scarecrow, and I feel so incredibly sad.
Hope you feel better quickly! Lotsa crap going around. Take care of yourself.
I think we’re all still mourning for Scarecrow. So sad.
ZED!
RIP (((John Chandley)))
Thanks for the post Crane. Hope you feel better soon.
Oh noes. The ZED!
Thanks for the post CS. Lexi and I just perused all of the best space pictures of 2012. I also showed her the newly discovered flying frog. She thought it was pretty darn cool. I did too.
Good morning to all you firedogs. Lexi and I were at the grocery store last night, handling business, when cbl texted me to tell me about John. I felt like someone punched me.
Awesome post Crane-S, thank you and I hope you are feeling better very quickly.
Good morning everyone.
Crane-S, hope you get well soon.
Thank you for the post.
I get to teach my 12 year old son today so will BBL.
Scarecrow’s passing takes out a little of the joy.
Have a great day pups.
So much fog outside that I can’t see the streetlights one block down the road. I love when it’s like this.
It’s nice to go for a walk in fog like that, if you can do so safely off the road.
I will take your fog and give you the snow that we are getting now.
Just supposed to be a “dusting” but you know how that works out in reality.
Obama won’t do anything really significant on climate change, but it mostly won’t be his fault. He’s going to approve Keystone IMO, but the GOP will stop him on anything that would increase costs to their major contributors.
When those glaciers are gone in the Andes, we’re gonna see impressive impacts on food prices worldwide. Chile and Argentina both currently export crops and beef and they’re going to switch to net importers.
Boxturtle (My bet on the major frog problem is pesticides)
It seems that Manti Teo admitted that he lied and kept the sham alive even though he knew it wasn’t true anymore.
I bet in South Bend you are getting swamped with this kind of news lately.
You may be right about the frogs. Didn’t we recently learn that the GMO crops with internal pesticides were the cause of depletion in bee populations?
Not to suggest BT isn’t right about the other things. I’m just focusing on the frogs.
Good morning, all. Feel better CS.
Pretty clear already here in mid-town, but quite cool still.
In keepng with the environmental theme I’m sorry to pass along these well constructed stories about the mining bill and related water quality issues coming from FitzWalkerstan and the Citizens United funded/ALEC driven former democracy.
Wetlands
Secret Meetings of Mining Proponents
Limited Public Hearings in the affected region.
Good morning Jane. Hope you’re feeling alright this morning.
It was nice to see so many folks return last night to see John off. He’ll be remembered in very high esteem by all here.
My place is about 3/4 of a mile away from Brushy Creek (you can find that on a map!) at the southern end of Williamson County. The water helps the fog develop here, I guess. We get big patches in my neighborhood. Nothing between us and the creek but a couple of fields.
If you drive half a mile north on the county road away from my neighborhood the fog disappears.
Good Morning Crane, Jane, and Firedogs,
do everything you can to rest Crane and feel better
‘Caw !
Interesting, thanks. I just heard it is going to be a very warm afternoon; OK by me.
A cause, though there are others. Mites and fungus are both hitting the Bee’s too.
It should be noted that Monsanto, a major producer of GMO crops, disputes the Bee study. Says results were misinterpreted and anyway it’s too small a sample size.
Boxturtle (They’re right about the sample size, but that’s being addressed)
My forecast shows 77 today, 79 tomorrow. I’m looking forward to it :)
Pardon my abruptness and language, but fuck Monsanto.
Yep, me, too…Let’s remember this is the summer.
I gave serious thought to Drink Lib. last night;
maybe next time….
I was going to ask if you went. I saw your comment about it yesterday. I couldn’t go, unfortunately. Had grocery shopping to attend to.
The Supreme Court’s refusal to hear a challenge to the regulation of greenhouse gases means that the executive can regulate emissions of greenhouse gases without having to go to Congress for additional legislation. Some of the regulations to do this are in process right now.
The challenge is to get a change from the “all of the above” energy policy.
And the bigger challenge are the various ALEC-controlled state legislatures that are rushing to do offshore drilling and fracking. And steadfastly opposed to solar and wind.
I have been avoiding that Manti stuff. Will have to go look. No big surprise, though, at least to me. My question remains: WHY does/did anyone care?
Good morning to you!
REALLY annoying. The GOPers are going to serve their masters.
Boxturtle (And they’ll hide behind their stone walls while doing so)
congress will respond by closing that loophole. Or cutting off EPA funding. While crying to America how much this is going to increase energy costs.
I note they do not seem as concerned about energy cost increases brought on by the US military being the largest user of fossil fuel in the world.
Boxturtle (Or oil speculation)
Crane is not feeling well and is unable to join the discussion this morning.
She told me about Scarecrow’s passing. I really like and respect him.
I will miss him.
“WHY does/did anyone care?
My guess is because it is Notre Dame football and he was a Heisman Trophy candidate.
I am not saying it is right.
This story is not going to go away anytime soon and my comment directed to you was in regard to the fact that it is probably all over the newspapers and hard for you to avoid.
No big deal msmolly, I just wish that he would have come clean when the hoax was revealed.
I know how much you love football. *g*
Meanwhile in other news, my neighbor is out with his snowblower, clearing the (m-a-a-a-y-b-e) 1/2″ of snow that blew onto his driveway since yesterday at dinnertime. Oh, I should note, he was out at dinertime doing the same thing. And we have snow removal service in the complex, and the plows cleared the snow yesterday morning.
I think the man needs a hobby. But then, he loves machines that roar. Snowblower in the winter, leaf blower in the summer to get twigs off his deck and driveway.
mornin’ doll
Oh I knew your comment wasn’t directed at me. I stopped taking a print newspaper at least 3 or 4 years ago, so I mostly was reading the Te’o stuff on Facebook, where a lot of my friends are current employees of ND and were all aflutter over it.
And we only have one local paper (if you don’t count the Chicago Tribune) and it’s pretty much a waste of newsprint.
Thanks, Mason. We’re all thinking about her and wishing her well.
Glued to CSPAN watching Senate Republicans try and beat up on Hillary?
Is the beating up working or is she holding her own against those jerks?
negative ghostwriter . . . would rather have root canal
sitting on my ass, playing with modeling chocolate :D
50 quatloos on Hillary!
Boxturtle (if the GOPers were wise, they’d know not to go poking a tiger)
And totally ignoring the exploding impacts of frack sand mining, that lightly regulated little necessity found in the Badger State.
Citizen concerns, one plant draws 1.5M gallons of water a day for high capacity wells to wash the sand.
That is the problem, they are not too smart.
I read that she was going to appear before the Senate committee and then in the afternoon she was going to appear before the House committee. I may have those appearances backward.
3.0 in Irving, Tx last night.
why yes, earthquakes do occur all the time – but this non scientist finds it wildly coincidental that frequency is ramping up off the charts in the Lone Star State . . . and in areas of heavily concentrated frack activity
Thanks for checking it out.
A geological study gives an excellent picture of the particular ore body and the most complete lay person’s description of what is afoot in northern WI is here.
This affect Lake Superior, ultimately more precious fresh water.
Non, as i said yesterday, it is going to take a long time to undo the damage that Walker and his cronies are doing to the state right now.
You live in a beautiful state and I wish that he could be dumped before he destroys the entire state.
John Doe is still alive and after all the underlings have been sentenced, maybe, just maybe Walker is next.
Excellent overview. A shame the GOP does not accept science.
Boxturtle (Willing to bet nobody who votes for it lives near it)
Hi cbl
The Chippewa Falls area frack sand mining is where the water for my Leinies favorite WI beer originates and is brewed, those inconsiderate, irredeemable frackers.
We had some earthquake activity east central WI last spring. No actual fracking here yet. When one of the eastern great lakes drains out into a disturbed ground fault, the regulators might step in.
Crane-Station,
Thanks for your post topic and the proper place for me to get on my soapbox.
AC2, this particular iron ore body is still in the ground and the Bad River Band has treaty rights that cover the conservation of the water flowing into the tribal lands. Somebody remarked that if we break the Treaty all the state and private land reverts back to tribal ownership.
Later pups.
Obama said that he would focus on Climate Change, and he said that he would make the country “Energy Independent” by burning lots more Oil and Coal and Gas. These two are diametrically opposite statements, and at least one of them is a lie.
Good work, thanks for the info.
Sometimes what the President does or doesn’t do is actually mostly his fault.
“After the most expensive campaign in U.S. history, President Obama is dropping his principled objection to some forms of political fundraising to help pay for the post-election party.
ABC News has learned that the Presidential Inaugural Committee will accept unlimited corporate donations to help fund Obama’s inauguration festivities next month, reversing a voluntary ban on the money he imposed on the inaugural four years ago and during the 2012 Democratic National Convention.” LINK
Including contribution from Exxon-Mobile
On the holding accountable front, the Sierra Club for the first time in its history will participate in civil disobedience .
My diagnosis: OCD
Oi. We were on the front page this morning. I’m sad CS is sick, she missed it!
Hope you feel better Crane-Station. And I hope Mason is taking good care of you.
Ooooh. That should be fun. Hillary v. The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, round two. I wish I could watch today.
Feel better CS. Stoopit flu is wreaking havoc this season…
The legislators voting for this don’t even want to hear about science. Support for retaining their own jobs in the next election is their only motivation. In the economy they’ve contributed to undermining with $2.3B in tax give-aways, cuts to education, the elderly and the poor, they would likely be unable to find a regular job anywhere, though becoming lobbyists is still a choice for them, I guess.
Well, at least he waited four years to drop that principle.
I should HOPE that Exxon would be a major contributor. Given the work Obama has done to keep their executives well paid and unjailed, anything less would be ungrateful.
Boxturtle (Thinks Obama will approve Keystone before the end of Feb)
Probably. He’s perhaps not quite SS age but is about 65, still works at the furniture store he owned and now his son owns/runs. Probably could retire financially but isn’t ready. But I just get a kick out of his love of roaring around with yard machines. Happy to have a meticulous neighbor, but it gives me no end of amusement. And the exterior maintenance is taken care of by the HOA fees, so he wouldn’t have to do any of it.
(Thinks that was obvious all along. Thinks that will be his fault. Thinks people are already drafting lists of reasons why it’s not his fault.)
Well, there’s nothing on Kos yet.
Boxturtle (*rimshot*)
Impressive! That might wake a few people up.
*rimshot*
Might as well have a real one!
I checked Obama’s 2009 inauguration speech. It, too, mentioned saving the environment. Also building bridges and roads.
I find it charming that people still take what he says seriously.
for CS: steaming tea, lotsa fluids and humidity, garlic (not necessarily in the same mug!), rest